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Nimbus
In their Global Type collection, URW++ has its Helvetica clone, Nimbus Sans (2005, 5 fonts, 2000 Euros) and Nimbus Roman (2005, 2 fonts, 2000 Euros). The former is based on Helvetica, the latter on Times New Roman. Meant as workhorses, these fonts cover Turkish, Baltic, Romanian, Cyrillic, Greek, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Arabic, and Hebrew. Of course, Nimbus Sans can be had for free at Open Font Library. The first versions of Nimbus Sans were digitized in the 1980s for the URW Signus sign-making system. The highest precision of all characters (1/100 mm accuracy) were required because the fonts were to be cut in any size in vinyl or other material used for sign-making. During this period three size ranges were created for text (T), display (D) and poster (P). In addition, URW produced the L-version that was compatible with Adobe's PostScript version of Helvetica. Nimbus was also the product name of a URW-proprietary renderer for high quality and fast rasterization of outline fonts. Also in the 1980s, a new improved and expanded version of the Nimbus Sans, Nimbus Sans Novus, was developed with URW's Ikarus system. Nimbus Sans Novus was modified for Nimbus Sans Round in 2015. Nimbus Sans Devanagari was redesigned in 2016. Nimbus Roman Japanese was refurbished in 2014 by URW. Two releases in 2021: Nimbus Roman No. 9 L, Nimbus Sans L. |
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file name: U R W Nimbus Roman 2005
file name: U R W Nimbus Roman 2014
file name: U R W Type Foundry Nimbus Roman No.9 L 2021
file name: U R W Type Foundry Nimbus Roman No.9 L 2021
file name: U R W Nimbus Sans L Bold Condensed 1987 2014
file name: U R W Nimbus Roman 2005
file name: U R W Nimbus Roman Chinese 2005
file name: U R W Nimbus Sans 2005
file name: U R W Nimbus Sans 2005c
file name: U R W Nimbus Sans 2005d
file name: U R W Nimbus Sans 2005e
file name: U R W Nimbus Sans 2005f
file name: U R W Global Nimbus Roman Japanese 2019 292496 002
file name: U R W Global Nimbus Roman Japanese 2019 292497
file name: U R W Global Nimbus Roman Japanese 2019 292498 002
file name: U R W Global Nimbus Roman Japanese 2019 292499 002
file name: U R W Global Nimbus Roman Japanese 2019 292500 002
file name: U R W Global Nimbus Roman Japanese 2019
file name: U R W Nimbus Sans Hiragana 2005
file name: U R W Nimbus Sans Round 2015 196323
file name: U R W Nimbus Sans Round 2015 196324
file name: U R W Nimbus Sans Round 2015 196325
file name: U R W Nimbus Sans Round 2015 196327
file name: U R W Nimbus Sans Round 2015
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